In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

George The Dog

July 12, 2014

by the gentle author

Coinciding with the publication of the memoir by East End artist John Dolan, JOHN & GEORGE, telling his life story and exploring the benign influence of his dog George, Howard Griffin Gallery is opening an exhibition of his portraits of George next Thursday, 17th July. As a preview, we publish this selection of drawings illustrating the multi-facetted personality of this celebrated hound.

On Sunday mornings in Columbia Road I have stopped to talk to George and John Dolan several times. We always talk only of George. I said I had a photograph of George my brother had taken, pinned up in my hall, and that the photograph is much admired. John told me George was now quite famous, but with great modesty he never referred to the reason for that fame: John’s own drawings.

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